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Estella Tse

@estellatse.com

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VR/AR Creative Director & Artist — among many other things. she/her. 🌲Oakland grown 🌸 Portland livin Clients: Google, Oxford University, Adobe, AMD, Intel, Snapchat, Cartoon Network, Netherlands, more https://estellatse.com/?utm_source=bsky

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Jan 25

Ohai, new followers!❤️

Here's snippet of work I'm known for: immersive VR/AR experiences - live painting performances, commissioned pieces, re-creation of historic pieces, gallery installs.

I'm formally trained in visdev for entertainment; dev for innovation; emotional storytelling. Welcome! #art

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · 15d

Hihi - I've been offline from socials BUT posting regularly on my blog with daily paintings! I dunno - sup? how are y'all? It's clearly terrible out here in war-ravaged Portland!

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Stargazer — Estella Tse

I remember spending nights staring out my window, watching the moon cross the sky, and the stars twinkle their way above the Oakland hills. I daydreamed of the world I’ve yet to explore. It seemed va...

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Jun 2

Lovely!

Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 28

I've been creating a platform to test and experiment bringing my creative products to mass market and retail 👀

Celebrate my shop launch with 15% off when you get on my newsletter (since I'm less on socials these days).

Promo ends Saturday, May 31 @ 11:59PM PT! 🙂

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Screenshot of Estella's Creative Shop including beautiful mini-prints and greeting cards, well-shot and staged in beautiful nature scenes, chic living rooms, and studio workspaces.

Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 23

Limited quantity of Bryan inspired artwork in my shop 👀

Handpainted, chinese brush ink prints. Grab the first-run print! Might turn into something.. otherly... dimensional... in the future 👀👀👀👀

estella.link/3GZcnL4

#pdxart #pdxartist #independentartist #bipocartist #bipoc #art #illustration

Photograph of a framed art print of a chinese brush painting of sleeping dog. Text reads: "Art Print of Miss Bryan by Estella Tse. Pre-order before May 31"

Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 21

My work in print! 😍 My shop launches today — pre-orders open until May 31. Your purchase = seeds for my creative garden to grow and scale!

15% off for all new subscribers until May 31 • Free shipping for all orders over $25

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#pdxart #pdxartists #illustration #art #handmade

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Yoshi Yoshitani @ NYCC 2162 @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · May 21

Magical Girl 1 of 3

Part of this months Patreon reward set

#art

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 21

This goes off when I have girlfriends over 😂😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️ Just existing as a Chinese lady lol

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 14

Bryan at school 😊💖🦴

#hernameisbryan

A group circle of dogs around a trainer, all quietly and patiently "DOWN" and waiting their turn and command.

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Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com · May 10

Named for the goddess who linked heaven and earth, the iris doesn’t just bloom—it tempts, it beckons with its silken drama.

#bloomscrolling 🌿 #garden

Two iris with pale peach petals and light blue beards

Iridescent purple blue iris with a yellow beard

Pale peach and violet iris with a yellow to orange beard

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Yoshi Yoshitani @ NYCC 2162 @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social · May 9

Monster Guardian 2 of 3

(Don’t you dare auto label this one bsky!! 😡)

#art

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 8

"I want a Life of fulfillment, with a sense of abundance, of belonging, joy, peace, protection, safety, love, and ALWAYS with a dog.

It means getting used to the peace, riding the discomfort of my neurological system literally rewriting and rewiring itself to a Life of safety and stability."

Discomfort in Peace — Estella Tse

I want a Life of fulfillment, with a sense of abundance, of belonging, joy, peace, protection, safety, love, and always with a dog. It means getting used to the peace. It means riding the discomfo...

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 7

My first @scaniverse.bsky.social splat. Tiny 3.5x2.5” piece.

Next time:
*Perhaps foamcore lightbox for photographing + bounced lighting
*Use lighting arm to rotate around the model so more steady?
*Maybe paint easel white?

Fun way to experiment from traditional 2D painting —> to 3D scan.

Devils

View this scan by @estellatse in 3D on Scaniverse.

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 7

BB's smile is outrageous LOL
I hope the two of them can meet and romp soon~~ :~)

Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 7

☀️What brings you joy and warmth today?🌷

For me, it's my smiley girl Bryan. She's 100% sunshine and rainbows🌈 and I love everything about her! This is her at school right now with a fren😍😂 #hernameisbryan

Two dogs smiling at the camera. One is an older german shepherd on a bed with its tongue out. The other is a smilie golden retriever who has fuzzy baguettes for legs and is smiling so happily

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 6

"It was never yours to hold
I’m sorry we placed that into you
The belief that you could be the only one to help us
It wasn’t yours
And we’re sorry

It was our chaos. It was our pain, our frustration, our mayhem…"

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#pdx #pdxartist #art #illustration #arttherapy

Not Yours to Hold — Estella Tse

It was never yours to hold I’m sorry we placed that into you The belief that you could be the only one to help us It wasn’t yours And we’re sorry It was our chaos. It was our pain, our frus...

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · May 6

Stoked indeed!!!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · May 6

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Apr 30

Sleep Token doodle - more digital painting practice. Quick & dirty

Anyone else seeing them this year? 😍✨

#sleeptoken #sleeptokenfanart #vessel #procreate #fanart #illustration #art #dailysketches #blueskyartists #pdx #pdxartist

Digital painting of hooded, masked person - dark shroud. White mask with red grunge marks. Dark red scratchy marks in the background.

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Apr 29

I'm cracking up at my own desire to doodle a Lynn Minmay fanart lolol

Hecka long since I've doodled digitally (2D) with @procreate.com Teen Estella was out this AM 🤣

#fanart #macross #robotech #lynnminmay #procreate #illustration #art #dailyart #dailysketches #anime

Digital illustration of anime girl singing and performing in space; she has blue hair, holding a mic, with cute pink gloves, short dress, and boots. The background is galaxy elements of pink clouds and yellow bokeh effects against a deep purple sky

Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Apr 25

My daily creative work isn’t just about skill-building. It actually isn't that at all. It’s about showing up as myself, to myself, with my creativity. Honoring the authenticity of how I want to create as an expression of myself in the moment....

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#art #arttherapy

Samatha — Estella Tse

The daily creative work isn’t just about skill-building. It actually is not that at all. It’s about showing up as myself , to myself , with my creativity . Honoring the authenticity of what and ho...

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JLMeyer 🐰 @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hey!🥳 We are back up!
(Server was down here)

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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · Apr 25

#ForestFriday
And so we begin again

Sassafras making leaves again
The cycle of life

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Apr 24

🤣 Bryan wanted a tarot card reading 🔮✨

#hernameisbryan
#dogsofbluesky #pdxdogs #portlandogs @weratedogs.com

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Mar 3

We weren’t meant to thrive in a fast paced work environment we were meant to collect berries in the summertime and lie down for a whole day after mistaking the bad orange mushroom for the good orange mushroom

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Estella Tse @estellatse.com · Apr 22

I'm choosing Claude as it is a more ethical approach to LLM training, attempting to mitigate the harms of AI. 3/3